Jim via tde-devels wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I saw the top-posting and missed the rest of your questions.  Mea culpa.
> 

Thank you

please answer Slaveks question how you exactly run TDE.

usually I log in via the TDM (login manager) it then takes care to set all
the pieces needed to run TDE properly.
If you did so - what is the status of your user profile - any old stuff or
whatever - perhaps try with a fresh user

> 
 
>> tdebase-trinity usually pulls the whole set of packages needed to run
>> TDE.
> 
> Well, maybe it should, but I guess it depends on what one exactly
> means "to run TDE".
> 

exactly this is what we are trying to find out - because TDE is the desktop
it covers all the pieces. However you are talking about korganiser (the
calendar piece as part of the tdepim)

> Sorry it wasn't clear above... when I try to configure korganizer's date
> and time (i.e., the way it presents the date and time, I am not trying
> to change the system time), using the korganizer menu item
> "Settings/Configure Date & Time ..." I get that message.
> 

This actually invokes the part for the locale settings (I think it is part
of the tdebase and you have already installed it)

>> what source did you use - what is mentioned in the article?
> 
> Yes, I used exactly the lines in the article, except I put "buster" in
> for "<your-distribution>".  I commented out the deb-src lines, since I
> was not planning to d/l any source at this point.
> 

> 
>> tdebase-trinity usually installs what is needed - in this case did you
>> install also locale packages as noted in the article?
> 
> I did not.  My native language is English, and I am OK with the
> default locale.  (If there was a Canadian English locale I might have
> installed it, but I don't see any locale in the listing whose name
> suggests that to me.)
> 

this is good so - it was just a fact check question

> 
> ADDITIONAL INFORMATION which may or may not help:
> When I start up kcontrol, the pane on the left which should have all
> sort of things (in an older version of TFE on another computer I have
> "Appearance & Themes", "Desktop", "Internet & Network", and so on)
> is empty.  So, again, it can't find whatever it is looking for.
> 
> According to the output of an incantation I found on line, there are
> 1037 packages with "trinity" in the name which I have not (yet) installed.
> I guess I could just bite the bullet and start randomly installing
> things, but if anyone can share some wisdom, it would be most appreciated.
> 

dpkg -l | grep trinity 
dpkg -l | grep trinity | wc -l

what packages and how many do you have?
are they fully installed (line starts with ii)

if packages are not fully installed or missing - this could explain the
issue.

I installed yesterday the RPi4 by installing tdebase-trinity & co - about 50
or 100 packages. Then I installed tdepim and some other that pulled many
dependencies - about 700+